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Fidei symbolum.
The symbol of good faith.
EMBLEMA IX.
Stet depictus HONOS, Tyrio velatus amictu,
Eiusque iungat nuda dextram VERITAS:
Sitque AMOR in medio castus,[1] cui tempora circum
Rosa it, Diones pulchrior Cupidine.[2]
Link to an image of this page [D5r p57]Constituunt haec signa fidem; Reverentia Honoris
Quam fovet, alit Amor, parturitque Veritas.
Let Honour stand depicted, clothed in a garment of Tyrian purple, and let naked Truth hold his right hand. Between them, let chaste Love be represented, his brow garlanded with roses, but fairer than Cupid, Dione’s boy. These images constitute good faith, which the reverence due to Honour fosters, Love feeds, Truth brings to birth.
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Foedera.
Alliances.
Ad Maximilianum Mediolani Ducem.
To Maximilian Duke of Milan.
EMBLEMA X.
Hanc citharam, ą lembi quae forma halieutica[1] fertur,
Vendicat & propriam Musa Latina sibi,
Accipe Dux: placeat nostrum hoc tibi tempore munus,
Quo nova cum sociis foedera inire paras.
Difficile est, nisi docto homini, tot tendere chordas:
Unaque si fuerit non bene tenta fides,
Ruptave (quod facile est) perit omnis gratia conchae,
Illeque praecellens cantus, ineptus erit.
Sic Itali coeunt proceres in foedera: concors
Nil est quod timeas, si tibi constet amor.
At si aliquis desciscat (uti plerumque videmus)
In nihilum illa omnis solvitur harmonia.
This lute, which from its boat shape is called ‘halieutica’, my Latin Muse now claims for her own service. Receive it, O Duke. May this offering of mine be pleasing to you at this moment when you are preparing to enter into fresh agreements with your allies. It is difficult, except for a man of skill, to tune so many strings, and if one string is out of tune or broken, which so easily happens, all the music of the instrument is lost and its lovely song disjointed. In like manner the leaders of Italy are now forming alliances. There is nothing for you to fear if affection lasts for you and stays in concord. But if any one should slide away, which we often see, that harmony is all dissolved into nothing.
1. halieutica, a Greek word meaning ‘fishing’ (boat).
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